The Sun. — London, England, 1818-09-03 00:00:00

- the'tiont what! 11, at the bat;lc Al the 'house, was tfo.ne that w hi c h m i i st have imme- Iliately vim) Ann to lir. Bite, and the bottle. 'herr, r, at an when the letott Marti wonid ila‘e been followed by discovery. 'lire declaration goes on to' state " that B. after some d.tEenly, ent in, when A immediately twicked down and killed the servant with a midlet Ire had put , itled himself with, and 8 rushed Ihrongli the passage and strttgled with Mr. 13irii, whom lie soon dirt for with the hammer which Hon , sev had given Isla.; that while tlik ''n, thissev was 'landing cloir to the and wan to whis le it he saw any tme %VHS eillnint,!, wh;cli he did twice, at there were two persons that rAsseil ; hitt , as the night was very tog y, and it %v.'s a little before eight in the evening, they scenic., to tale tin notice of the 1;011 of the rindle which the servant had in her band at Mr. Bud's dottr." it is tiecessary to pose again Imre, to notice Anwlicr of the inconsistencies of this very impro bable slot y. Hussey states, that his post was dilse to the Tiger's Head, rind that this transaction took place between 8 and 9 o'clock. is'to be recollected, that the evening of the murder was the c•bild night of the Odd Fellows at the Tiger's Bead, and that Hussey, being a member, would stand a Chance of being seen by some of the members as they passed hint, while he stood ef , se to the Tiger's Head. The night was very foggy, and might hare shielded him from observation ; hut this would equally have. prevented him from knowing when his signal of whistling would he proper; indeed, the signal seems to have been useless, for it was, according to his statement, twice re- pealed without being noticed. The declaration proceeds, " that Hassey kept watch for about-twenty toinntrs, and thinking them a long time, and that they might be discovered, he crossed the street and quietly tapped at the dour; no one answered, nor did he hear any noise. Thinking this strange, he went to the side door, and tried to get in there, pot foond it quite fast; he then re turned to the front door, but could nut open it. lie knocked again, and was at last let in ; he forgot by which of the two , but he kalif, We were at the top of the house looking over what we had found, and you alarmed us.' " 'This part of the story is irreconiilealile with the former.— If B had either got over the side door, or broken it open, and bad forced au entrance into the back part of the house, the saline passage was open to Hussey; but he tried that way, and viol,' not get ia, all was fast. If these supposed accomplices were alarnsed by Hussey's - knocking, they would hardly have opened the door without some signal being previously given, sqich they could hear while inside the house; this, at so tarty an hour in the evening, would be rather a dangerous experiment. The knock at the door was loud enough to be beard by them while at the top of the house ; and when they opened the dour to Hussey, they risked discovery Irma any person who might he passing, as there was a lamp inimedi eddy over the front door of the house, which might have shown the liCerlC of blood. He further states, •' that he went in, and in going up stairs stumbled over the body of the servant, which they then removed out of their way. He was shucked to learn from them the fate of Mr. Bird and the maid servant, hut. B. said it could not he helped, as they found them, and particularly the el.! man, so resahtte. After being in the house five mi nutes, it was agreed that he should go nut, and in ten mi nutes after they both came to him. He was then in the mid die of the street, nearly opposite to Mr. Bird's house, and it was so dark hat nobody could see him. They then went into the pia. and by the light from n dark lantern, which A. had brought with him, they ocean dividing the property, which was tied np in a sheet. There were a great many ar• ticks, hut the smallest part fell to his lot. They said, that in the bureau, a great many guinea§ were found, which it was agreed they should have, sad Hussey the Bank-notes and watches, &r. They then separated, and he went and changed himself. When he had dune this, he came down privately, and ‘, err to a pond near Vansittart-terrace, where he threw in the mallet and hammer, us had been tied up in his bundle, and which the other two men requested him to take with him." If my construction of the term " confession" is a correct one, and that it means " an avowal of the truth," the few last sentences of this man's declaration destroy the possibility of the statement be made in the cell, or noon the scaffold, being adMittul as a confession. Ite affirms that he was shocked at the fate of Mr. Bird and his housekeeper, and yet, shocked as he was, within one hoor of the commission of this barbarous assassination, of which he was the sole mover, he could go to a crstb-roort, end sing two songs with his usual cheerfulness, drink, smoke, and sleep, and within a few days follow to the grate, as an idle spectator, the bodies of the two victims of his crimes. And can we for a moment credit that Mr, Bird's resolute ness was 'he motive fur the murder; a poor infirm man, 83 years old, who might have been tied to his chair with a packth•rad ? In Eimssey's possession, at the distance of a month after the murders. were f•iond the following articles, which would alone make a tolerable large 'intne, viz —47 large sheets. a pike of new cloth, a large cotton shawl, a silver soup ladle, iilrer wine-strainer, an old cotton handkerchief, 2 shirts, ciwatche;, and five 11. Lank of England notes, and two 11. 3znit of England woes: ❑nd yet.ke states, that the smallest Stare fell to his lot. Besides these, rings of some value, one of great apparent ra:ae, and a watch, were found on his person. If they sv,nt to the Park to divide this plunder, they must 'have passed unnoticed thron4h the streets With their large bnndle, or through the Circe:, to have got to the Park ; and as the gates are in the month of February locked at 9 o'cluL:ii, when they had finished their partition, they would, upon their return, have to set over the Park.v..all with their bundles. if Mr. Bird.had by him the guineas which Hussey speaks of sis haring been found in the bureau, they would probably hare b,•cn in the secret drawer, which was nevertheless undisco- Tered ; and when he affirmed that his share consisted of the sank-notes and the watches, while the gold was retained by the others hr was not aware that it bad been clearly ascer tained, that he had himself been disposing of gold-coin at a shop in Newegate-street a few days after the murder. What the valuable share of these supposed accomplices could consist of it is difficult to imagine; for, with the ex ception of some lace and two or three articles of silver, all that was lost on the night of the murder was found in the Possession of Charles Hussey. If, as he states, he had thrown the hammer and mallet into the pond at Van , dttart-terrace, there would they both have been tottud; but a hammer cooly is found there, (although the p►; u d bas 'teen twice thorou6ly Search,d,) hammer only, and not a mallet, were the blows and fractures upon the heads of both the murdered persons inflicted. There was no mirk whatever of a mallet hating been in my way used in this horrible work of death. With relation to his alleged companions in the rohhiry, Hussey appears to.have evinced feelings of considerable in dulgence; for, although he planned the robbery, yet he re ceived the smallest share of the plunder, and took upon him se! f all the. risk of the discovery; for he undertook to di:pose of the instruments of death, and kept in his possession the bloody clothes, which most, when discovered, add to the other presumptions against him ; and, while he lurks about the scene of the assaisination_, his associates, the actual murder ers, (whose names, tie it known, are,, by accident no doubt, the most common to he found in the Navy List) escape, with out a trace to lead to their detection, or even t heir destina tion. Bat, to convince any reasonable inquirer of the falsehood of Hussey's declaration, it is 'only requisite t,t, compare a short computation of the tune he gives, with the data furnished by the testimony of accurate witnesses. The declaration alleges, that the house was entered between eight and nine; some space of time intervened between A linoe king at the door, and B (overcooling the ditticeities be found in getting into the house. Another all wance of time must be made for the commission of the murder, Mr. Bird baring struggled a good deal. Hussey was 20 minntes uo the watch, before he went. to the door to theie associates. Hr was in the house for 5 minutes, and then waited 10 minutes for them. They went to the Park to divide the plunder; probably we should allow 10 minutes for this. part of the transaction ; the division of the booty might take 5 minutes. Fluseey's return front thence to dress, and the act of changing his clothes, cannot be computed at less than a quarter (Ilan Dour. His then going to the pond at Vansittatt terrace, to conceal the hammer and mallet, anti his returning to the Tiger's Head, must have consumed at least lu minutes or te quarter of an hour more. By his account, therein e, of the transaction, front the com— .of the murder to his joining his companions tat the Tiger's Head, .it would v,:quire, upon the must moderate computation, an hunt and a half, and probably a much louger time than this calenlation amounts to. . _ Compare this wiih the proofs upon the trial. Mr Bird and his housekeeper were seen alive at 20 minutes e t half-past right; and all the witnesses agreed that about 211 minutes atter nine (one witness said 10 minutes past nine) Hussey was at the Tiger's Head; so that all these different circum stances must, if they took place at all, have occupied only 40 minutes—a thing quite incredible ta those who know the re lative situation of Mr. Bird's and Letton's houses and Green• such Park. _ Upon these grounds, strengthened by other minor circum stances of corrohoratinn, is my conviction founded, that Charles Hussey's own hand infl.cted the mortal biases upon Mr. Bird and his house-hreper ; that he bad preciously se creted the hammer for the express purpose; that he knocked at the door at half-past eight o'clock, and, while speaking to the maid, felled her to the ground with his right hand, and thrust•to the street-door with his left; that 'upon Mr. Bird's advancing to the door, he was in like manner struck down by the listninet ; that he made a hasty search ttiroiLls the house, and having moved the house-keeper front the front door (as her body had fallen so as to prevent the door lions opening), be gut his jacket and gaiters bloody, and the latter marked with rumit ; that he took the brindle of things he stole to the dark cellar at ',Won's, and threw the hammer into the pond; that he then changed his clothes, ar.d immediaiely re turned to the Cluh, where he spent the evening, unaffected by the foul atrocity in which he had been engaged; and that he depended mainly for his acquittal upan the early h‘itir in the evening at which he mixed amongst the members of his club. It may be felt, and, indeed, has been urged, that Hussey made his confession after joining in the solemn office of re ceiving the sacrament. and that he could have no expectation then of escaping punishment. Whatever weight these tonsi derations might hare in the case of an ordinary offender, in the present they have no weight with me. He received the sacrament denying his implication in the offence ; and in his . last letter to his brother before the trial, he exults, that, however the general opinion was against him, still while there is life there's hope." J. L. ItICKNELL. Cireenw•ich, Sept. 1. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last ,Vight. Tti EATPE ROYAL. ll.trmaux ET.—The Trat•ellers Benighted : ktuhevt, 'Mr. Terry ; Niaremeritte, After which, The Green Mxn. Tu whicl► was added, Barata►.it}. Turvrtn: 114. VA ENCILISPI OPERA, STRANO..-.:llie Boarding House: Yuling Contract, Mr. Wrench ; Carohste Heartly, Miss I. Stevenson. After which, Amateurs and Actors. To which was added, The Adopted ( hild. MAILS. ARRIVED—I Dublin, 1 France. Dun— t Waterford, 1 Sweden, Hainburgh, 1 Lktion. PRICE 0 STOCKS 1141' nAY AT r Bank Stock ....2681 2tiSl 264 A per Cent. Krii 74fi 75 a pc r Cent. Cons 7 1 1 i 74# o'ct.ocK. Bank 1.. Ann....... 20 1-16113 India pr. Ex. Bills, 2d. 181.201. I9s. pr. Ditto, ISs. pr. Onitlium ........ dis. Si i t c..ns. fur Actutmt......74ii3 31 . per Cent Hai 84i4 I 4 per Cents. 94 5 per Cent.N. Ann..... 103 ii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning, 29 urinates after 4. Evening, 56 minutes after 4. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DIOEILE ■ALSOM AUDEAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1818. Last night and this morning we received the Paris Papets of Sunday and Monday last. From the former we give a few paragraphs in another column. A general review of the Army of Occu pation in France is, it is said, to be made by the Doke of WELLtsoroN after the breaking up of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, expected to be about the atiddle of October. ftc following are extracts front the Juurnhls of Monday " Pasts, AUG. 31. Yesterday, before Mass, the King received, at a public audience, the Count de Lcewenhielm, for the purpose of the latter delivering to his Majesty the Address of his Sovereign the King of Sweden and Not way, who has accredited him to his Majesty in the quality of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary. " On the Duke of Gloucester's journey to :Fun louse, the artillery of the garrison went through some grand manouvres in the presence of his Royal Highness, who expressed himself highly gratified. " By an Onlonnance of the 12th instant, the King has appointed Lientenant-Generdl the Count Souhaut to be Governor of the sth Military sion. " His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, travelling under the title of Earl Of Connaught, arrived on the 231 instant tt l'onlouse, With a small suite. The next day his Royal Highness visited the puhlio buildings, &c. His Royal 11:0;nees tytitri:arob de Saint •Chumans , Prefect of the Department. " the ceremony of the ch`rislening, of the young Prince, ion of the Prince al Orange, took place on the 25th at the liagee, with great so iemnity. lie received the name of William Alexander Frederic Constantine Nicholas Michael. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday 79 f. Wt. DEFERRED STOCK of the OM Nirit eh, 1817, f. 22d Sept. 1 , 11 . 7, ntf f. H 5 IC. Nlantr, uSII, • • • ..84 f. 85c. " FRANKFORT, Aut. 25.—Yestrrday morning the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hesse Homburg, Prince Louis, Prince Gustavus, and his consort, passed through here to proceed to Detraistadt, on a visit to the Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse. They returned in the evening to Romberg. " BERLIN, Aut 18.—The arrival of the gm peror of Russia in this cal;ital is now fixed for the 4th of September. His Imperial Majesty will make only a sh.rt stay, ail he wishes to prO centl on to Weimar, to pass 'time days with his 16ter." This morning we received New tnk,Papets to the 11th alt. Quebec to the 12th, Charleston to the 2d, Baltimore to the. 10th, - and Philadelphia to the 10, h.—The following are Extracts:— , " HALIFAX, Jut.* 29.—0 f the eight vessels detected fishing on the coast of Nova Scotia, and sent into this Port for adjudication, five were I , be• rated on Friday last, but with the full understand ing that the indulgence would not again be granted to them. A cettifleate to that effect was endorsed . upon their registers, and the Captains requested to make it as public as possible for the infot niation of the Subjects of the United States engaged in the Fisheries. The remaining three eliscilVered fishing in Harbours to the Eastward of liniifax are now libelled, and will shortly be brought ro trial in the Court of Vice Admiralty; where we have no doubt they will be condemned. The lenity thus shown by Rear-Admit al Sir DAVID MILNE to the vessels which he has liberated. must. convince the Government of the United States of the strong desire he feels to preserve the harmony which at present happily subsists between Great Britain and the United States ; and we sincerely. hope will so operate as to deter for the future American vessels from committing similar tres , passes. At the s.ime time, his Majesty's Subjects, in his North Ante' ican Dominions, must be satis fied with the Admiral's determination to guard from every infringement and violation those rights to the Fisheries which exclusively attach to them." (From The New York 4drertiser of .dug. SEVERE ENGAGEMENT. " Captain Buss, of the schooners Sanford and William, from Tenetiffe, informs, that ,on the Mb of June, in lat. 28. and long. 28. he spoke Ids Britannic Majesty's ship Indian, sloop of war, from London, hound to Jamaica, laden very deep with provisions. The Captain of the Indian said, that two days previous be engaged a Pirate, and bad a very severe engagement, which evidently appeared from the situation which she was in, her sails and spars being flinch in jured. He further informed, that the pirate made three attempts to board him, but was drive" back. The sloop of war lost better than half her crew : the pirate's loss of men not known, but supposed to be much greater. The pirate was much superior in force and bulk, and sailed faster than the Indian, which, after a tong combat, had the good fortune to beat her off : she hauled her wind and stood to the S. W., being very much disabled. HAVANNAR, JULY 17.—We have received information by tl►e schooner Mary Ann, just ar rived from Cadiz ; the Captain of which states, that he received a Note from the American Consul the day he left, stating that the Floridas were ceded to the American Government by the Spanish Government." (Fran The Quebec Gazette of AUK. 3.) " KINGSTON (U. C.), JULY 28.—Lord SEL• KIRK arrived in town ye,terday in the steam-boat . Frontenack, from Niagara. We understand the trial het%veen the Hudson's Bay Company kind North \Vtst Companies is postponed till October, then to take place at Volk." Jamaica Papers to the 26th July arrived this morning. " By the Eliza we received Curacao Gazettes to the II th inst. It appears by these papers that Hamm has hail an engagement with the Spanish fleet, when he captured two of their brigs ; it is also said that he had taken the Spanish sloop of war Sardinia, from the HAvAnnali, proceeding to some port on the Main with troops. On Satur day morning the Eliza spoke one of BRION'S squa dron, and was informed of the capture of the two brigs in at► action with the Spaniards." The Morning Post bus this dAy imerted R Article from Paris, stated to be An extract from a letter written by a Lady w.bo had disposed of ha properp in tliis country, 9ncl rest &N) to 1 :*; 1( ber. residence in France. It was addressed 1 0 lit Sister, who *as making prepat•ations to In ll° her for the same purpose. The letter tlissosrirs the sister (ruin leaving this `country, Odell that ", a reVolutiOnary spirit very gener° ll / reigns," and that " when the Allies quit Fran ce ' little doubt is entertained but there wil l 66 tt gtn&al Massatre." The wilier ,is sold i° be the wife of an Officer of Rank in ib i g . British Army. It is strange th a t a Lady of s oe '' a rank in life shonid have thus determined tg abandon htr own Country ; but, be th a t a s it WY' the Editor, by the Conspicuous place wbicb be ns' given to this extract, seems evidently disposed r° enntiltier it as a niAtter of importance. Inde ed ' he tieciates that It has been, thought of sofnei enC frivol-tante, all cirbittustatiCes 'considered, 8 ' t° have been cortimunicated to our Governme nt ' We respect whatever appears iit the P a per In , question, because we are 'lite that the Conthictor never would attempt to ithpos.e Upon his Read ersr . or to santtion ally trill;; capable of raising Isi te • alarms. That the cotrimunicaiton, .as he set's' lney have" excited an tit reordinat y degree °f j°° terest " we can readily conceive, because it Object of the outmost l'iterest in all Bor°Pef as well as NJ but CouhriilrUrn in France.'" got we haiid as god(' infoimation, and, Per li n ' : rt-e might sli:y better intorrit;',tion, front the FroglL t;apital, than any tither. kinglis.l) „j ou rnal %chino' exception 1 and all one in:Nlligcnce reprise' , " the removal of tlik Allies . as the sine Ina non for th d . security of the thrtine and thehappinesi of the, penple in France. We have lung been of 0 dif i ^ ferent opinion, and have often' • ventur e to ... donbt the assniatiees of ton. valuable C °r respondent: in Paris; ion his persevering e" Pa ,, vierion, sop Ported by the gitinion of other ligent Persons, iothire Os to hope and believi ll' a when Fratice has really.recoveirl her indepencl4. ence,, she will astnintra loyal ,xlignity of clorti cierP e * and '6O 11 those revolittintmiy spirits wb ° anxious to - plunge ti e. Colon ry once more horrors of a bloody I)emocrls-cy. • The following fit an extract Iroto,,a pirate l" . , ter, glared liencoolen, April 15 " our new Lieutenant-Governor, Sir S LailY, and suite, arrived here 0111 " 1 1 21st ult. lie landedoll the next clay, Anil trot, charge of the Government wid e r t h e osdal The great character which he had act tle Java had excited great expectati o n, )m4 lo ° ll ' 4 his presence very welcome. Tie n r., „, er : which this place has been neglected calls f or mediate . cilatip! Hutt revision ; a n l Conli dCfj ; reductions, I understand, are in contempl A ,: ' On the arrival of the intelligence of the ine,'*,(c cooly death of the Princess Ch ar l o tt e , the isl fr v i• Settlement went into mourning ; and "" 27th of March the bientenaut.Goveritor 091 1 , - ; • mooed a genet al meet fl;., of the inhabitattio , L , framed and signed addresses to their Royal nesses the Prince Regent and Pt ince I.ooPt o t Saxe-Cobourg, deploring this calamiions - which have heen transmitted t o E n by Mitchell, of the East India Companys i\Torthurpherlan c d. The Lieutenant Governor so. took advantage of the so t r o w an d feeling °l, : t r i moment to establish • The Sumatran Ailxi ° ,,r' Bible Society ;' and the lit .y. Mr. %%Inter, °lbe. Chaplain, preached an appropriate sermon ' " rl i s o lf occasion. Nothing can equal the mel""',,et With which we are overwhelmed i n . CO" nse'orc of this sad catastrophe.' Th e duty on the e% !,• 1 ,0 of spices has been tak e n o ff, audit' libtat i o f • we shall export enough for the consumptio"The Buglind, and eventually of the . Coolitien t ' f per It ctiltivators think the m s e lv es veil paid at . i c ry, • lb. for nutmegs. As we had a right 10 eq ie y, from the liberal and e n light en ed views of . 0 " r l ose s Lieutenant-Governor, I understand - he pr° l3 t he immediately to abolish slavery', and emancipstehich natives front the forced deliveries,&c. under t v so f they have heretoforelabotired. gamiug op t cock-fighting farms, the sources of ,endless are to be abolished from May I." • • v ett Kew, Se 2.—Yesterday evening theP li sc if RaGaNT left for the Stud. llottse:Sir to MILNAN and Sir H. HALFORD SO" conti attendance here.—The PRINCR B EGII NT oil e d here this mot ning. if his afternoon the poe yoRK arrived, - re 1. 1 . 1te Duke and Duchess of "RLAIIIINC It are n f Dow Ager gds nocitoi paring for a visit t o 0 4 , Queen TEMBERG, ci-devunt Princess Royal Of Eiog i ' w at Stutgard. Alt. CLARK, Purser of the Northuniherlatol,!lti: , ` I rived yesterday at ERII 11,vrituasT's office dispatches from St. Helena, which were iv°le, o g dietiely forwarded to his Lordship at his setit Putney. p oer tn A letter was yesterday received front 10, del Nato, Island of iNLirgaretia, dated Ju l Y or which states, that MoanAo lout !id le(/ sn° ,vere epieitdid victory; shut no particulars ore itl an %O r : The late Sir JANIES YEA WAS the l i e" - iv brought the first intelligence to this Cooll ,' di 0 ";ilie the rising of the Spawn aaainst the i s p e r Invaders, Inraders, and the conserptcnt surrender or r o of the French Army, an event tha t gave peal, of ::0133. impure to the people ot Spain in all q'o rter , r ool l9 ' at leng!b, by the a,..i.t„„ce of the n wl.ritis!) kr o, and their Allies, finally drove oppress.`- o l en 0, out of the Kingdom. Sir JaraEs svAg jo Lientetiant in the Navy. so o lt,'" We are ',wry to lea rn by the ,nil }' s' t 4 :3:7 b.sf p ii l la 1 Jfl, which ge arrivedhr4Np hr tiw o tamed at the Cane for the sAtttY 0f tije itolinman, which ship hadhcett dnilv thither fur e lung • • - 44..4 , 5 ~77 b ~~ cli t t 1:111 %, t eii tht